Neck-yoke tip



(NoModeL) G SHUMAN:

Neck Yoke Tip.

WITNESSES:

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D C- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SHUMAN, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

NECK-YOKE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,911, dated December 28, 1880. Application filed April 20, I880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES SHUMAN, of Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Neck-Yoke Tip, of which, the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a useful and ornamental metallic tip for the neck-yokes of horses.

The invention consists of a ring with a recess and a loop with a hook at one end, which hook end of the loop is placed within the recess of the ring, and both ring and loop are then driven over the end of the neck-yoke and secured thereon with a screw or rivet passed through the free end of the loop.

Figure l is a longitudinal elevation, representin g one method of applying the device to a neck-yoke. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal elevation of a modified method of applying the device to a'neck-yoke. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section elevation on line m at, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section elevation on line m, Fig. 2. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In Figs. 1 and 3 in the drawings one method of applying the device is shown, in which A represents the end of the neck-yoke, provided with ashoulder, a. B represents the ring, provided with the recess 1). 0 represents the loop, provided with a hooked end, 0, and D represents a metallic tip-covering or ferrule cast solid to one side of the ring B. In this invention the hooked end of the loop 0 is engaged in the recess of the ring 13. The ferrule, ring,

and loop D B C, respectively, are then together driven on the yoke A until the said ferrule D is in contact with the shoulder a of the yoke A. The free end of the loop 0 is then fast A represents the end of the neck-yoke; B,the

ring, provided with the recess 1),- O, the loop, provided with the hooked end 0, and E represents a metallic plate covering the yoke beneath the said loop, in order to protect the yoke where the breast-strap is fastened on. In this instance the plate E is first fastened on the yoke A. The ring and loop B G, respectively, are then driven on together, and secured in place by a screw or rivet, d, passing through the free end of the loop G and into the neck-yoke A.

This device for tipping the ends of neckyokes enables one to use brass or other metal that can be successfully plated for the ferrule or plate and ring,while usin g iron for the loop, which loop must necessarily be strong, and it also affords an opportunitytor dressing up and polishing on a lathe that part of the t'errule or plate immediately beneath the loop, which cannot be done with tips now in common use.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The loop 0, having hook end 0, in combination with the ring B, having recess 1) for the reception of said hook end, as shown and described.

CHARLES SHUMAN.

Witnesses: V i

JOHN LOVE, H. R. SPALDING. 

